Director - Treasury Technology - Banking Captive

Position Description

- Treasury Technology are responsible for the design, build and operation of banks's Treasury trading, balance management and Liquidity Reporting ecosystem. In partnership with the Treasury business we look to deliver technology solutions that enable organizational liquidity management and efficiencies. We currently have a significant regulatory agenda to deliver that includes one of the top priority programmes in bank.

- This role is to lead the global engineering function for Treasury technology in the area of Risk in Banking Books. This is a multiyear strategic program responsible for providing perspective risk in bank's capital and earnings from various factors like interest rate movement and yield curves. This is complex program involves real time calculation of risk utilizing data from various feeds, reference data and imploying customized methodology calculations.

- This position requires leading a multi-site engineering teams utilizing modern software development practices related to Architecture Design, Development, DevOps, Quality Automation and ensuring production quality performant systems. We need to build an effective and trusted global engineering capability that can deliver consistently against the business ambitions. The individual will be a senior engineer and proven technology leader with knowledge of best practices, the ability to influence change across the wider organisation and challenge the status quo.

- Work closely with senior level stakeholders in Operations, Compliance and Technology to design solutions to business problems, provide transparency to program status, and manage risks and issues.

Position Specific Responsibilities and Accountabilities:

- Lead the global engineering function across our strategic locations to deliver Risk in Banking Books Program

- Strong preference to have a deep background in either data (ingesting, cleansing, transforming), analytics (big data), and agile development

- Lead the Design Discussions and represent the proposed solution to architecture committee

- Ensure our delivery capability is disciplined, controlled, transparent and fully compliant with Bank's standards

- Implement the talent strategy for engineering aligned to the broader Treasury Technology talent strategy & operating model

Range of activities including:

- Build a leading engineering capability, and culture

- Support the continuing adoption of a scaled agile delivery model (LeSS)

- Establish clear standards and best practice

- Materially improve the levels of engineering discipline and pride in our work

- Create a pipeline of talent

- Coaching & mentoring

- Support the integration of DevOps into engineering

Experience/ Exposure

Industry / Domain Experience:

- Knowledge of agile ways of working would be desirable

- Knowledge of money markets trade capture and lifecycle management process would be an advantage

- Knowledge of the Finance/Treasury/controlling domain and end-to-end workflow for a banking & trading businesses would be an advantage

Technology Experience:

- Proven design and solution skills using BigData technologies like Hadoop, Spark / Impala

- Visualization tools like Tableau / QlikView

- Experience with relational and No SQL Databases

Personal Attributes:

- Develop a strong Engineering ethos that embraces innovation, experimentation, quality, and continuous improvement

- Experience in building technology vision, roadmaps, driving execution, making critical tradeoffs

- Highly structured & organised

- Leading, mentoring & developing talent

- Excellent communication and problem solving skills

- Excellent senior stakeholder management

- Experience leading large complex programmes

- Self-motivated and able to work with minimal supervision

- A good working knowledge of JIRA and developer tools (GIT, Teamcity etc.)